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01-27-14 10:03 PM - Post#163100
In response to mountainred
BRF swears Courtney is coming back for the 5th and final season of his contract. The reason is, essentially, that Cornell won't want to pay him to buy out his last year. No idea if that's true...
If Cornell's season finishes as it has started, the Cornell AD just might take a page out of Florida AD Jeremy Foley's playbook. Third-year coach Will Muschamp led the Gators to their worst season in 34 years, including a home loss to I-AA Georgia Southern. The Gators offense ranked a pathetic 113 of 123 D-I schools. Their starting QB broke his leg in the fourth game of the season, the top running back tore up an ACL in Game 5, and the OLine had persistent injury troubles of its own. SEC coaches are expected to recruit and coach well enough to cover those deficiencies. Muschamp didn't.
Muschamp had one year left on a $3.25mil/yr package, with an $8mil buyout. Foley could not face his boss and the UF alums with that kind of financial hit. So...... Foley offered Coach the chance to stay if he would change out the offensive coaches who were demonstrably horrible. Rather than walk, Muschamp, who was widely suspected of meddling in the offense, fired the OC he had hired two years before and replaced enough offensive position coaches to keep the wolves away.
This isn't the BCS and we are not dealing with nearly that absolute amount of $. Relatively, though, we might be close. All the evidence on the table in Ithaca is that Courtney is a reasonable man and recruiter, but a terrible practice/conditioning/X's and O's/game day coach. Either the current top two assistants are able to teach players those mechanics of playing college ball in a traditional sense and he interferes with them to the extent that they cannot do their job, or they are clueless like Bill. Either way, the assistants must go. The current situation is totally dysfunctional or this team would be winning some games. Offering Coach the chance to stay, providing he hires two new top assistants that meet with everyone's approval, seems to be a reasonable solution on the financial side. If Courtney walks the plank with his assistants, the Cornell AD is off the hook. If he doesn't, the new assistants would bring new life to a [recently] once-proud program, and healing could begin.
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